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- Why were the Northern colonies settled?
- Religious purposes
- (Climate suited more for manufacturing than for agriculture)
Who settled the area?
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- Why were the southern colonies settled?
- Hope that plantations would provide new goods for trade in the British market
- Source of cheap land for the British
- New world would provide cheap labor source (Native Americans)*
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How did the colonies like Jamestown grow?
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- Excellent land for agriculture
- British Navigation Acts - Gave Britain a monopoly on trade with the southern colonies. This, in turn, stimulated the growth of the plantations by giving them a constant, large market.
- In 1607 the Virginia Company promoted the Jamestown Colony (established by John Smith)
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- Tidewater aristocracy - a few wealthy landowners that remained closely linked to the aristocracy of England. They still held on firmly to the Catholic faith.
- Large numbers of slaves and middle class frontiersmen
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